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Pascal Obry wrote:
> I have one case were it does happen. I bought the Easy CD Creator 5.0 platinum
> version. When installed on XP it has corrupted the Explorer icons. I had to
> tweak the registry to get back icons for my removable drives... FUD certainly
> not, but for sure it is quite rare.

This is clearly a case where the software is deliberately going
out of its way to touch registry entries that don't belong to it.
Don't do that. But it's irrelevant to the case of storing your
own private configuration parameters.